Complete Guide: Installing bfgminer on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) 2024

1. Install "bfgminer" package

Please follow the guidance below to install bfgminer on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bfgminer
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bfgminer" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall bfgminer on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bfgminer
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bfgminer package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: bfgminer
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.4.2+dfsg-1build2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Bitcoin Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1411
Depends: libbase58-0 (>= 0.1.3), libblkmaker-0.1-6 (>= 0.5.3), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.18.2), libevent-2.1-6 (>= 2.1.8-stable), libjansson4 (>= 2.1), libmicrohttpd12 (>= 0.9.50), libncurses5 (>= 6), libsensors4 (>= 1:3.0.0), libtinfo5 (>= 6), libudev1 (>= 183), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.9)
Recommends: ocl-icd-libopencl1, opencl-icd
Suggests: mesa-opencl-icd
Filename: pool/universe/b/bfgminer/bfgminer_5.4.2+dfsg-1build2_amd64.deb
Size: 487768
MD5sum: 563687c0486bca3858cc599dbea117a6
SHA1: 71e9b575fbb4a4208d15db74d6f2fcc3f25cf778
SHA256: c8c5ab75bdc5d9468ec215015aa54a0cc2179b1bd820d15e1b1b5603cafaa8d7
Homepage: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
Description: multi-threaded multi-pool ASIC, FPGA and GPU bitcoin miner
Description-md5: e28f554577090dec33c92c57e0620a77